The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-03-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Mar. q, 1887.

OUk WASHlNGIUA LETTER.
I. WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. 81, 1887.
Ttseems that Commissioner Sparks, of
the Land Office, has as last got himself in
tight place which may ultimately lead
to his resignation. Practitioners before
the Bureau ever since his accession to
the Office have heen hoping that some.
thing would turn up to lead him into
other fields. The last story that he
wrote to a personal friend in New York
State, saying that he would do all in his
power to defeat Cleveland's renomina-
ton and to secure the nomination of
Gov. Hill, seems to be very generally
accepted about here as containing great
deal of truth. It is true that the Com
missioner has denied any foundation for
the rumor, but still people around the
Capital, who seem to know pretty we'll
what is going on, say that there is more
fact than fiction in the story. The Com
missioner has also set the pot to boiling
in the Treasury Department. He has
charged the Assistant Comptroller with
the authorship of certain official cores
pondence rejecting upon his action in a
land claim, pending in his office, in
which he says the assistant official was
interested, and publicly says that the
Deputy Comptroller has no right to the
position he holds and should be removed
at once. Mr.. Garrison, in defense, pub
fishes card, saying that the Comptroller
himself conducted the correspondence,
as the record shows. Mr.. Sparks seems
to possess the faculty of quarreling with
all bis official brothers, and you need not
be surprised any day to hear of his res.
ignation.
Ever since Congress adjourned the air
has been full of rumors of official misdo-
ings, and ruptures of good feeling
between Washington officials. In con-
nection With the resignation of Commits.
sioner of Patents Montgomery, be was
reported to have said, in an interview
with newspaper man, that Congressman
and Senators bored the life out of him in
soliciting appointments for friends, and
that they were more importunate in
soliciting appointments for women whom
they had never met before coming to
Washington than for any other class of
favor seekers. Mr.. Montgomery has,
however, very emrhatically denied ever
having entertained such thought, much
less giving utterance to such scandal
and says further that his sole reason for
surrenderipg his honorable Office is to
engage in the practice of law again
before his old practice is completely
scattered and lost. His many friends
here have hopes that he will receive the
nomination for Congress when the time
for making nominations again rolls
around.
Another rumor without foundation
was to the effect that isergeant.at-Arms
Canaday, of the Senate, was found to be
short in his accounts, and that he was
guilty of borrowing money of all his
subordiuates without returning it. The
truth is,, Mr.. Canaday has nothing to do
with the disbursements of money, az
none passes, through his hands, andso
has no accounts in which to "be short"
So far as the other part of the rufnor is
concerned, the afsble and generous
sergeant:at. .Arma-is-te;orss.11sl lending
instead of borrowing money, as he knows
10 his sorrow.
Secretary Endicott also denies that
there is any unpleasantness between him
and the President, OF that he has any
intention of resigning. There has been
some slight disagreement between him
self and the newly appointed Surgeon
General of the Army, General Moore,
about changes in the Office of the Sur.
geon General, but even that is not of q
serious nature, and under no circum-
stances would it affect the cordial and
friendly relations b tween the Secretary
and the President.
All these rumors have for their origin
the fertile and imaginative brains Of
newsy correspondents who are suffering
for the want of spicy debates in Con.
gress and the personal "reminiscences and
gossip of members of Congress to write
about. H.